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Radiohead offers ‘love and support’ to fans attacked for drinking and listening to album during Ramadan

Radiohead has reached out to fans in Istanbul who were attacked for drinking alcohol and enjoying their album, saying their “hearts go out to those attacked” at a listening party in Istanbul on Friday night.

The band issued a statement of disappointment, telling fans “we hope someday we will be able to look back on such acts of violent intolerance as things of the ancient past”.

Media outlets in Turkey, including the Istanbul arm of D8 News say men stormed a record store in Istanbul and attacked fans who were listening to the band’s new album, yelling at them for drinking “during Ramadan”.

Footage captured by people attending the event was first streamed live on Periscope, and shows the men yelling profanities, smashing windows and assaulting patrons.

The following day, police used tear gas and water cannons to break up protesters near the record store who were calling out the violent attackers.

The Mayor of Istanbul, Ahmet Misbah Demircan, issued a statement calling the attack a “planned assassination of social peace”.

The record store, Velvet IndieGround, was taking part in the worldwide “Live From a Moon Shaped Pool” listening event, joining hundreds of other independent stores worldwide.